He’s also told ITV News that cutting top rate of income tax from 45p to 40p isn’t a priority.

David Cameron has also spoken to ITV News about the matter:

It’s not our policy, it’s not our plan. Our plan is to raise to £12,500 the basic rate threshold so that we take another million people out of income tax all together and cut tax for 30 million people.

In the midst of the Easter celebrations our hearts go out to those who face difficult times both overseas and closer to home. My thoughts are particularly with Christians in Syria, Iraq and other countries where the church suffers terrible persecution.

But we don’t need to travel far to find families facing fear and uncertainty. Over two million children are now living in poverty in the UK. I have admiration for those church members and Christian charities that provide support and hope to those in need.

Mr Miliband celebrates Easter Day in the middle of the controversy generated by some speaking notes left behind in a dressing room after Thursday’s General Election debate.

According to those notes, Mr Miliband hoped to come across to voters as a ‘happy warrior.’

Mark Ferguson, a Labour activist of the LabourList website, said it was ‘pretty unforgivable’ for someone to have allowed the notes to be left behind – but insisted some of the contents could be seen as ‘endearing.’

Ukip Clacton candidate and former Tory MP Douglas Carswell expressed a different opinion on Twitter.

In the meantime, I repeat my challenge to Ed Miliband: if together our parties have the numbers required after 7 May, and regardless of which is the biggest party, will he and Labour join with us in locking David Cameron out of Downing Street?

Leanne Wood says she plans to end austerity and rebalance power and wealth

Speaking to Radio 4’s The World This Weekend she said:

Many people who vote Labour do so because of what Labour used to stand for in terms of their old values. And if we, with others, my friends in the SNP and any Greens that are elected in England, can put pressure to bear on the Labour Party to force them to consider what their original values were all about, then I think that’s something that would have backing from people.

Nick Clegg has called the Easter holiday a time of reflection and renewal and a time to spend with families

He says the values that Jesus lived his life by ‘compassion, humility and forgiveness, resonate with people of all faiths, and none.’

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